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AMD, ATI Launch 'Fusion' Platform
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Oct 26,2006

ATI/AMD who has successfully completed its merger, has announced that it is hard at work on a new CPU/GPU silicon, which will merge computing and graphics into a single solution. This new solution has been codenamed as Fusion and is expected to emerge by late 2008.

"AMD plans to create a new class of x86 processor that integrates the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) at the silicon level with a broad set of design initiatives collectively codenamed 'Fusion'. AMD intends to design Fusion processors to provide step-function increases in performance-per-watt relative to today’s CPU-only architectures, and to provide the best customer experience in a world increasingly reliant upon 3D graphics, digital media and high-performance computing", said Phil Hester, AMD senior vice president and chief technology officer.

AMD is expecting to integrate Fusion into all the product it deals in from laptops and desktops, to workstation and consumer electronic products. Considering their recently launched Torrenza platform, this new solution ties in well. I hope 'Fusion' will result in powerful hybrid products, that actually lower the power requirement and offer considerably better performance.

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I am wondering, is amd intending to completely bring the gpu on to the cpu silicone or are they intending it as a sort of graphics coprocessor, i.E. To do some of work that the new aero interface used by windows vista will require. This approach would be ideal, have the cpu/gpu do the math intensive work and then via the htx bus interconnect shunt the memory intensive tasks to the main gpu. Since amd now has access to ati's crossfire tec doing this kind of load splitting should be: at least in idea, easy. I don’t think that a total combination of the gpu and cpu will give a real tangible gain. That is unless amd puts a separate memory subsystem in for the gpu half to use. Then the decrease in latency would give very tangible gains. If not and the gpu is forced to share the other wise slower system memory ddr2 or even ddr3 compared to gddr2 3 and now 4. This will severely limit the performance of an otherwise very good idea.
Michael, Morgantown @ Oct 28,2006
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